This weekend has made up my mind for me...

[Cia]

How is not charging sales tax legal?

[froglet]

How is not charging sales tax legal?

They aren't really not charging it, they are just absorbing the cost of it as a sale price and calling it 'no tax'.

They don't technically HAVE to charge tax, they just have to give the government x% of what they've earned. In Ontario (I don't make enough to charge federal tax in my business) they send out a bi-annual report I have to fill in, whether I make anything or not, and submit it with the money I collected for them. Minus a fee for myself.
wow, that turned out longer than I planned on

[wagegoth]

They say law firms are recession proof, but they're not. We're huge, but our corporate group is down. Our litigation group (which I'm in) is busy though, which is helping. It's interesting timing, because just in the last year or so there was a real push to build the litigation department.

I worked for a very large law firm that boomed during the tech bubble. Then it closed. Complete frigging mess. Screwed quite a few employees, some of the associates and counsel, even messed up some partners. Messed me up financially. The creditors forced a bankruptcy. Now, after almost five and a half years, I will finally be getting a settlement, supposedly within the next month. After taxes and fees and everything else, it'll probably be about 15% to 20% of what I am owed, but the trustee is an a** and the judge is a jacka**, so we're screwed.

This year, our raises were really poor, but we did get raises and small bonuses. A lot of firms, even some really big ones, are having huge layoffs, and there are a couple of big firms that are really hurting. One is probably well on its way to breaking up.

[BlackIronCrown]

This year, our raises were really poor, but we did get raises and small bonuses. A lot of firms, even some really big ones, are having huge layoffs, and there are a couple of big firms that are really hurting. One is probably well on its way to breaking up.

Hmmm.
I'm hearing that while it's currently crap for associates and those freshly out of law school, paralegals are doing fairly well in the hiring market - outside of FL. Any truth to that?

[Javarod]

I suppose I'm lucky, I'm a courier, we are basically recession proof. Housing market going good? Lots of paperwork to deliver. Housing market going bad? Lots of paper to deliver. So on and so forth, the world runs on paper, and we get paid to move it. And failing that, are company will delivery anything that doesn't require investment in special equipment, I've handled medical samples from vet's offices, sign parts, pastries, legal documents, paychecks, flowers, and prolly a few things I've forgotten.